How many farmers can afford this $6.7M lawsuit b/c of BigWind?

In Ohio, our farmers will utilize planes to dust crops to kill bugs. Thanks to BigWind, our natural bug eaters (BATS) are being killed at an amazing pace. As a result, it will become more common that we need to utilize planes to combat pests. It will be interesting to see what BigWind will do to prevent this from occurring again. What can our farmers do, though, to prevent this? Don’t allow BigWind to step foot on your farm. See our ‘farming’ tab on our home page for other farming problems…

When Steve Allen, a highly respected Northern California ag pilot with 26,000 accident free hours, crashed his Rockwell S-2R into a whisper-thin, barely visible galvanized steel wind observation tower on January 11, 2011, a dark and sickening secret about personal greed and avarice was exposed for all the world to see.

The $6.7 million wrongful death settlement the aviators family was awarded this month will hopefully help ensure other similar tragedies wont happen in the future.

The tower, measuring just inches under 200 feet, was hastily erected in 2009 by wind energy interests “prospecting” for the perfect site for a new wind farm in Contra Costa County east of San Francisco. The odd height of the tower is central to the case — any tower under 200 feet doesnt need to be lighted or reported to the FAA. But because these towers can pop up almost anywhere and are nearly impossible to see in flight, they pose a special danger to aerial application aircraft…

If you visit Fairneny — and people are; people from Savoy, in particular, where a wind farm is being proposed — he will likely employ colorful language to explain to you why industrial wind turbines are a bad deal from the standpoint of noise, alleged health risks, and impact on the environment and property values. "We're screwed here," he say […]

WPD Canada has stated that the company’s board of directors have decided not to proceed with an appeal of that decision, and will not be moving ahead with what would have been an eight-turbine project.

The construction of a larger 30 megawatt capacity wind project in the same general area northwest of Kimball where a decommissioned wind project has existed in the past will triple the amount of power generated.